I hope you enjoyed our class outing University Archives. Our brief exploration of the holdings opened up our imaginations together. I appreciate your engagement last night as we explored artifacts and documents of our shared past. As you now know, archival sources can be manuscripts, documents, records (including electronic records), images, artifacts, recorded sound or moving images, or other materials. Archival data can provide access to material and voices that are hidden or missing from the established sense of history, opening up a rich and diverse range of information that may not be available elsewhere. 

What is held in the archives can become “hidden treasures” – portals that provide a glimpse into a more complex past. There is so much research opportunity in this University resource! What might be there for you to spark further research work? I look forward to thinking about this resource further with you as you consider what work to engage in as you move through the MA program.

Your to-do list:

For the next class please read Lorraine’s selection:  

• Writing Comments on Student Papers by John Bean (John Bean. Engaging Ideas: The Professor’s Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning.  2nd ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2011. Ch. 16 
• Please post BLog #10 on this reading, and include any insights regarding our trip to the Archives that you would like to share here.

Next up:

Nathaly will present next week (11/12) on her readings that you have reflected on already in your blog posts for this week. The theme of her discussion will be Writing, Creativity, and the Technologies of Making.  I will also try to devote a bit of time in the beginning of class to questions regarding advisement and registration for Spring ’27 classes.

Lorraine’s presentation will be postponed for the week after because I must leave a bit early to catch a flight at EWR. (Despite this plan, please remember to read the above article and blog on this material by 11/12). We have decided it is more prudent to have the double header on the evening of (11/19) with Lorraine and Itana both presenting that evening.

Enjoy the weekend